The Spectator, Volume 4Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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Page 19
... set of women who are got into the common - place rallery of every thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- ' trimony and the clergy are the topicks of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ' learned of ...
... set of women who are got into the common - place rallery of every thing that is fober , decent , and proper : Ma- ' trimony and the clergy are the topicks of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ' learned of ...
Page 48
... set on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greatest ge- niufes of that age to the difquifitions of natural know- ledge , who , if they had engaged in politicks with the fame parts and ...
... set on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greatest ge- niufes of that age to the difquifitions of natural know- ledge , who , if they had engaged in politicks with the fame parts and ...
Page 118
... affability , accompanied with as much power as ever mortal was vefted with , were what made him in the utmost manner agreeable among a set of admirable men , M men , who had thoughts too high for ambition 118 No 280 THE SPECTATOR .
... affability , accompanied with as much power as ever mortal was vefted with , were what made him in the utmost manner agreeable among a set of admirable men , M men , who had thoughts too high for ambition 118 No 280 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 179
... , which lay by it , was called the Queen's Veil ; and that in the same man- ner there was a large portion of ground set aside for every H 6 part 1 part of her majefty's drefs . Thefe lands might N ° 295 179 THE SPECTATOR .
... , which lay by it , was called the Queen's Veil ; and that in the same man- ner there was a large portion of ground set aside for every H 6 part 1 part of her majefty's drefs . Thefe lands might N ° 295 179 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 245
... dreadful iffue , the adds , Before mine eyes in oppofition fits Grim Death my fon and foe , who sets them on , And me his parent would full foon - devour L - 3 . For For want of other prey , but that he knows N ° 309 245 THE SPECTATOR .
... dreadful iffue , the adds , Before mine eyes in oppofition fits Grim Death my fon and foe , who sets them on , And me his parent would full foon - devour L - 3 . For For want of other prey , but that he knows N ° 309 245 THE SPECTATOR .
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